Performances in N.Y.C. A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny. Dancers, drawn ...

Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping brings her stunning reimagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Stanford Live in its U.S premiere. A product of her native Chinese culture ...

At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In a Dance Reflections program, Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny’s duet “common ground[s]” precedes Pina Bausch’s “Rite.” By Gia ...

Peat feat: dancers from 14 African countries, from Côte d'Ivoire to Madagascar, perform on a layer of earth Perhaps the most fascinating element of the work is the way the choreography counterpoints ...

In late April, the Martha Graham Dance Company debuted its reconstructed Rite of Spring at Carolina Performing Arts, as part of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s “The Rite of Spring At ...